Goldsmith, Oliver | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Biography
Ginger, John. "Goose-Pie and Gooseberries." In The Notable Man: The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, pp. 157-85. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1977.
Discusses events in Goldsmith's life at the time he was writing of The Vicar of Wakefield.
Wardle, Ralph. Oliver Goldsmith. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1957, 330 p.
Comprehensive biography, utilizing contemporary sources and providing a less disparaging view of Goldsmith's personality than had previously appeared.
Wibberley, Leonard. The Good-Natured Man: A Portrait of Oliver Goldsmith. New York: William Morrow, 1979, 255 p.
Warmly sympathetic biography that is based solely on contemporary accounts of Goldsmith's life.
Criticism
Battestin, Martin C. "Goldsmith: The Comedy of Job." In The Providence of Wit: Aspects of Form in Augustan Literature and the Arts, pp. 193-214. Oxford: Clarendon...
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